Garment-hanger.



No. 000,250. PATENTEDSEPT. 20, 1905.

' J. M. WALKER.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED APR: 1,1905.

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JAMES MILLERWALKER, or AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed April 1', 1905. Serial No. 253,363.

To all whom, it may concern: a

Be it known that I, J AMES MILLER WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Augusta, in the countyof Richmond and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed with especial reference to a certain line of store-furniture which I have developed for the purpose of improving the means hitherto employed for displaying garments, and more particularly mens clothing, to customers and for protecting the same against dust and the like.

In certain pieces of this furniture I support the garmentssuch as mens coats, overcoats, and the likeon coat-hangers,and in so doing it is especially desirable that these coat-hangers shall be more or less rigidly supported, so that when a number of garments are hung in line on such hangers they will remain in line and not twist and turn about. The garment-hanger herein described is. designed to accomplish this specific result as well as to constitute a very neat and efiicient form of hanger for general use.

With the above ends in view my said in-.

ven'tion consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts herein described, and more particularly pointed out in the accompanying claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

' Figure 1 represents a form of my improved garment-hanger in perspective, and Fig. 2 represents the same partly in side elevation and partly in section.

My improved garment-hanger comprises a fixed member arranged for attachment to a supporting-body and a movable member adapted to support the garment and be supported by the said fixed member. In the form herein illustrated this fixed member consists of a fiat strip, preferably'of metal, having a portion 1, with screw-holes 2 there in for attachment to a supporting-body, a downwardly-extending portion 3, bent substantially at right angles to the portion 1 and again bent, outward and upward toformthe tongue 4, which is preferably curved outward at its upper end, as at 5, the whole forming a flat hook. In the bottom of the space between the tongue 4 and the portion 3 is a filling 6, the object of which will hereinafter more fully appear. This hook may be formed of a single strip of metal bent into the proper shape, or may be cast, in which. latter-case the filling 6 would form an integral part of the hook.

stantially straight elongated portion 7, in which there is an elongated slot 8 extending longitudinally thereof, a hooked portion 9 The movable member consists of a flat strip, preferably of metal,having a subwith a considerable curve allowing sufiicient space to readily accommodate a coat-collar, and a garment-supporting frame 10, secured, as by rivets 11, to the upper face of the lower member 12 of the hookedfportion.

In practice the garmentcoat, for exampleis placed over the frame 10 in theusual manner, the collar coming into space 13. The slotted portion of the movable member is then placed over the upwardly-extending tongue 4 of the supporting-hook, and the portion of the member 7 forming the upper end of the slot 8 is allowed to rest on the filling 6. It will thus be seen; that the movable member will be held in a more or less rigid position, as there will not be suflicient play between the members of the supporting-hook to allow the movable member to twist around or swing in any direction. Side-to-side swinging mo tion is prevented by having a comparatively extensive surface, formed by the filling 6, en-

gage the sides of the slot, while'the twisting of the hanger is prevented by the flat surfaces of the supporting-hook engaging the fiat surfaces of the upwardly-extending portion7, from which it will be seen that the movable member once placed upon the supto pass through said slot and hold said hanger against torsional or swinging movement.

2. In a garment hanger, a garment-supporting frame, a supporting member consistingof a flat metal strip secured at one end to said frame and extending outward therefrom, upward and back over itself, terminating in an upwardly-extending member having an elongated slot therethrough, a hook adapted to pass through said slot and support said hanger by engagement with the edge of said upwardly-extending member forming the upper end of said slot, said hook having a flat shank and tongue arranged to pass upward in close proximity to the opposite faces of saidupwardly-extencling member, and hav- IIO ing a substantially solid extension projecting down into said slot in close proximity to the sides thereof.

3. In a garment-hanger, a garment-supporting frame, a hooked member secured at one end to said frame and terminating at the other end in a flattened upright portion having an elongated slot therethrough, a supporting-hook adapted to pass through said slot, and consisting of a flat metal strip having an offset portion for attachment to a supporting body, a main shank, an upturned tongue, a flat bearing-surface at the bottom of the space between said shank and tongue adapted to engage the edge of said upwardlyeXtending member forming the upper end of said slot, and a substantially solid projection on the lower end of said hook arranged to extend down into the said slot in close proximity to the sides thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MILLER \VALKER. Witnesses:

S. L. BUSHNELL, HENRY M. Non'rn. 

